Bildungskrise und Ausbildungskrise bei Jugendlichen in Deutschland. Der Autor weist gleich zu Beginn darauf hin, dass es sich zwar um ein Sachbuch, nicht jedoch um ein sachliches Buch handelt. Das Werk ist gespickt mit amüsanten und größtenteils zutreffenden Analogien und Späßen, so dass...

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...

This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...